LA CAPILLA AZUL
Located in the Chiloé archipelago, La Capilla Azul is an intimate, communal exhibition space that aims to bring the island's creative activity to the inhabitants of mainland Chile, with a showcase of national and international contemporary art.
This space seeks to be a curatorial platform with an emphasis on exchange and collaboration between creators in the fields of crafts and contemporary art in Chiloé. La Capilla Azul aspires to offer a new model that contributes to the decentralization of the ways in which Chilean regional, national, and international art exhibitions are presented.
La Capilla Azul was inaugurated on May 18, 2023, based on the principle that art is a basic tool for communication and social transformation through art. This platform seeks to promote the artistic and poetic sensibility and talents of each person. The program's objective extends beyond professional, gender, origin, status, and age differences. La Capilla Azul's curatorial program will embrace artists and artisans as creators who will share their knowledge, skills, and sensitivity with students and teachers from schools in rural areas of Queilen.
CONTACT
La Capilla Azul is open for events and by appointment only.
Please contact info@capillaazul.com for details.
La Capilla Azul
W-851, Queilén, Los Lagos, Chile
PEOPLE
Curators:
Dan Cameron & Ramón Castillo
Board of Directors:
Marijke Van Meurs, Solange Adum Abdala, Pablo Carvacho, Gabriela Kreft, Constanza Güell, George Negroponte, Dan Cameron & Ramón Castillo
Director Corporación Comarca Contuy:
Pablo Carvacho Yánez
Hospitality Comarca Contuy:
Marcela Contreras Iturrieta & Marcela Contreras Iturrieta
DAN CAMERON
Dan Cameron is a curator of contemporary art who writes about art, teaches and gives lectures about art, makes art, serves on art-related juries and boards, and advises public and private art collections. He has lived in downtown Manhattan since 1979. Throughout his 40-plus year career organizing exhibitions and launching cultural initiatives, Dan has championed the unexpected and the under-recognized. In 1982, he was the first American curator to organize a museum exhibition on LGBTQ art, and in 2008 he launched the Prospect New Orleans triennial in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Along the way, he has curated international biennials in Istanbul, Taipei, Ecuador and Orange County, California, as well as retrospectives of esteemed artists Carolee Schneemann, Paul McCarthy, Peter Saul, William Kentridge, Leandro Erlich, Faith Ringgold, David Wojnarowicz, Marcel Odenbach, Pierre et Gilles, Cildo Meireles, and Martin Wong. As part of the Getty Foundation’s Pacific Standard Time initiative in 2017, Palm Springs Art Museum hosted his exhibition Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art 1954-1969.
Dan’s core connection with art stems from its capacity to expand our collective awareness of ourselves, the world around us, and the forms humans invent to communicate essential values with one another. Not only is art capable of changing the world, he believes, but it actually does just that on a daily basis. Whether in the cause of furthering social justice or challenging art history, or both, Dan believes that the artist’s fundamental obligation to civilization is to push sensorial and perceptual engagement into new & fruitful realms of engagement. The curator’s role in all this is to provide an appropriate platform and context for that exchange, and a portal for viewers to fully immerse themselves in the experience.
RAMON CASTILLO
Ramón holds a PhD in Art History and Theory and is an independent curator. He was Curator of Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Chile (1995-2010), a project advisor for the CIFO-Fontanals Foundation in Miami. He was a Guest Tutor at the Flora Ars Natura School in Bogotá, Colombia (2015-2018), and Director of the School of Visual Arts at Diego Portales University in Santiago from 2010-2021. He is currently curator of the Federico Assler Foundation, the Nemesio Antúnez Foundation, and co-curator of Capilla Azul in Contuy, Chiloé.
VISION
In the heart of the Chiloé Archipelago, La Capilla Azul serves as a beacon of art, thought, and community — a space where boundaries between local and global dissolve through the unmediated encounter between creators and audiences. We aspire to establish ourselves as a cultural benchmark in Chiloé, Chile, and internationally, promoting a management model that intertwines memory, territory, and contemporaneity in continual dialogue.
Our vision is for a space that not only hosts exhibitions, residencies, and meetings, but also becomes a laboratory for new forms of creation and learning, a venue where curatorship is understood in its broadest sense: as the art of connecting, caring, and telling stories that resonate in the present while projecting possible futures. We want each person who enters Capilla Azul, whether from a small classroom at a rural school or an international exhibition, to feel that art has the power to transform their world.
La Capilla Azul is more than a cultural space. It's a commitment to art, education and the community, a project that grows with each artist, each child, each reader, and each person who wishes to be part of our story. Because we believe that art can transcend time and space, and that its impact can change lives and strengthen territories, we work every day to ensure this dream continues to grow and spread its roots.
Please consider supporting the vision of La Capilla Azul with a tax-deductible donation, or just drop us a line to let us know you appreciate the work we’re doing.
